The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those > who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the > occurrence of the events thereof.
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Except these dinguses aren’t even anti-war (as the northwest quadrant is labeled), they just aren’t willing to question, let alone separate themselves from the propaganda machine that has made them feel good and righteous about being on Team Ukraine fighting against Sauron-Putler.
It’s understandable to think Russia just started the war in 2022 out of nowhere if you lived on the regular internet this whole time and had nothing but mainstream liberal sources. If this was Instagram or a more “normie” website, for lack of a better term, I’d be totally empathetic with libs who think Ukraine and Palestine are comparable. But being so incurious as to still believe that’s the only version of events despite being on Lemmy, where it’s pretty easy to spend 5 minutes reading what the “tankies” have to say and understand there’s a different historical narrative where the war started in 2015, is just so sad.
The war started in 2014 when Russia first invaded. It did explode into a far bigger conflict in 2022 though.
you realize that the CIA-backed nazi coup occurred before the Russian invasion right? Check your timeline. The first shot was done by NATO.
You’re right that it was in 2014 not 2015 as I said in my comment, but to say that Russia “first invaded” and started the war then is also incorrect. The ethnic Russians in Crimea who asked for Russia to intervene were responding to the Euromaidan coup which was a significant escalation from the far right in Ukraine. If there had been no intervention from Russia there would probably have been massacres of ethnic Russians.
Without the Euromaidan coup, there would have been no annexation of Crimea. Either Russia purposefully installed a far-right, anti-Russian, pro-NATO government specifically to create the conditions for annexing Crimea and later the Donbass, or NATO fired first.